The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 32
[Affidavit by Lachlan Allan Allan McCaskill]
Affidavit by Lachlan Allan Allan McCaskill.
That I have resided thirty-six years at the Thames, in the Province aforesaid.
That I was well acquainted with Mr. W. E. Cormack, and was present at Coramandol, in the Province aforesaid, when the said W. E. Cormack delivered a quantity of merchandise to the late native chief Koenaki, as a consideration and in payment for a tract of land in fee simple on the River Piako, as expressed and described in a certain deed bearing date on or about the Thirty-first day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-nine, which said deed was executed in my presence.
That the said native chief Koenaki, and all his tribe then present who claimed any right or privelege, tribal, tributary, or in any way appertaianing to the said tract of land on the Piako aforesaid, were perfectly satisfied with the consideretion then delivered by the said W. E. Cormack to the said native chief.
page 18And I make this solemn declaration, consientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866."
L. A. McCaskill.
Made and declared at Mackaytown, in the Province of Auckland aforesaid, this Twenty-ninth day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five. Before meAlbert J. Allom,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.